Seven live products.
One thread.
Imali, Chingu, Phila, Bidwright, Izwi, Tzohar and A–Z Dates are live in production today. Most are mission products, built for a person the industry overlooks — informal merchants, seniors living alone, patients far from a clinic. The rest are craft products that hand people the tools big players take for granted. The thread is the user, not the category.
The WhatsApp business OS for Africa’s 6M+ informal merchants.
Track income, expenses, invoices, inventory and taxes, all through a WhatsApp message. Built for Africa’s 6M+ informal businesses, proven first in South Africa’s 1.6 million. Works in English, isiZulu and isiXhosa. Live in South Africa, Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe, each on its own currency and tax regime; the platform supports 21 currencies under the hood.
Full spec & compliance
“Chingu-ya.” One word is enough.
A Korean-native voice AI checks on seniors every day, and notifies welfare workers and families the moment something changes. Backend, dashboard, family app, senior app shipped to production at chingu-ai.ebenworks.cosince March 2026.
Full spec & compliance
Primary care that works with no signal, from a phone to a clinic.
Phila runs entirely in the browser on any phone, fully offline after the first load: WHO-adapted symptom triage, on-device AI screening, encrypted patient records and medical-aid claim prep. A registered clinician makes every decision — Phila is decision-support, not a medical device.
Full spec & compliance
Paste the tender. Get a compliant first draft— without the fabrication.
Bidwright reads an RFP, detects its industry, jurisdiction and language, builds a compliance checklist, and drafts a complete, editable proposal in the document’s own language — then exports to Word. It cites only the rules the tender names and flags anything it can’t verify, rather than inventing it.
Full spec & compliance
A full label back office, for any independent label.
Izwi Label OS is the software that runs an independent music label. Every label gets its own site, fan store and back office — catalogue and contracts, royalty splits and payouts, and a login where artists see their own releases and earnings. ESØTËRIC Ones is the first label running on it.
Full spec
Your site, built by the people who ship.
Tzohar Sites is a done-for-you studio. Ebenworks builds beautiful personal websites and portfolios for creatives, founders and professionals. You pick the features you need — music, a gallery, press, links, a paid membership and more — in up to five languages. We build it, launch it, and look after it. Ebstar (ebstar.co) is the first site we built on it.
Full spec
26 dates a city. A to Z. No filler.
A–Z Dates is a hand-curated date guide: 26 ideas per city, one for every letter A to Z, across 45 cities in 14 countries — led by the 2026 World Cup hosts. No AI and no listicles. Every pick has a real address, a map and an insider tip, written by editors who’ve actually been.
Full spec
These seven are ours. We build for partners too.
Imali, Chingu, Phila, Bidwright, Izwi, Tzohar and A–Z Dates are the products we own. We also build the platforms our partners run on: a 16-nation tournament platform, a community hub. The same team builds all of it.